10-12 | Following on from the earthquake that hit Herat in western Afghanistan on 7th October, we asked the Head of Programme who is now on the ground there to give us an update of the current situation: Herat is still experiencing aftershocks, which is unsettling for everyone. According to data from the Ministry of Public Health and Herat Regional Hospital, there have been 2,445 reported deaths and 2,440 injuries in Herat Province so far. However, as you can imagine in situations like this data is hard to verify and the figures may change.
10-9 | MSF is preparing a medicine and medical consumables donation to hospitals and health facilities in Gaza today (8 Oct).“Health facilities need this equipment because of the many injured patients,” said Ayman Al-Djaroucha, MSF deputy coordinator in Gaza. “Hospitals are overcrowded with injured people, there is a shortage of drugs and consumables and a shortage of fuel for generators.”
9-11 | After an explosion yesterday in a marketplace in Kostiantynivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been responding to urgent medical needs of people injured in the attack. At Kostiantynivka hospital, where MSF supports the Ministry of Health emergency department, 34 patients were admitted, with 15 of these classified as “red cases” requiring immediate lifesaving care.
9-5 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) fully resumed medical services at its Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince today, after an armed intrusion on July caused the organization suspend admissions in the trauma centre.
8-23 | Violence is threatening Al Nao hospital, a vital lifeline for people in Omdurman, to the northwest of Khartoum, as the conflict in Sudan enters its fifth month causing immense suffering for people in Khartoum and elsewhere across the country.